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Pulling at their old-and-mild in the local pub last week, Norfolk yokels guffawed with native pride as they read in London's Sunday Referee all about their 103-year-old pal George Skeet, "Britain's most wonderful father." A lad of 25 in 1858, George took a wife, who bore him two sons now aged 60 and 69. "The marriage," reported the Referee, "pursued the unruffled happiness of a rural England idyll till George was eighty-eight." Then his wife died. George, however, "felt that he had years ahead of him." At 90 he took...
Nominee Curley has referred to Nominee Lodge as "a sweet boy with an illustrious name," intimated that he will be sorry to beat such a nice lad but "you can't send a boy on a man's errand. ' Boy or man, Cabot Lodge has run his political errands effectively in the past year. Driving about the State, sometimes traveling 1,000 miles a week, he showed the people of Massachusetts a friendly manner, a warm smile, proved himself a first rate speaker...
...Spain. Last week the Red Militia of Madrid got their hands on Don Cristobal Colon y Aguilera, 14th Duke of Veragua, 16th in descent from the Discoverer of America and breeder on his estates of some of the best fighting bulls in Spain. In 1893 the Duke, then a lad in short pants, was taken to see Chicago's Columbian Exposition. He never again visited the U. S. and refusing a U. S. offer of $428,000 for relics of the Great Navigator in his possession, sold them instead for $164,000 to the Spanish Government in 1926. Last...
Oldtimers in Boise like to tell of the Idaho farm boy who some years ago returned from a trip to their city, breathlessly told his father that he had seen the great Senator Borah. As proof, the lad said he had heard a number of Boise people addressing the stranger as "Senator." "Son," the farmer drawled, "those city slickers were fooling you. Now what in the world would a man like Senator Borah be doing in a place like Idaho...
...court for driving while drunk, smashing into a parked car, was Robert H. Ickes, 23, clerk on a PWA sewer project, adopted son of Secretary of the Interior & PWAdministrator Harold L. Ickes. Announcing he would fight the charges as "political," Secretary Ickes snapped: "To attack me over a young lad who is an innocent bystander and just trying to make a start in life. . I think that is pretty contemptable...